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The Hollywood Reporter

Why Moviegoers Are Ready for Big, Walloping Performances Again • After almost two years of the pandemic, cinema is returning to joyous and melodramatic themes instead of naturalism and brutality — and we desperately need it

What a Lovely Ensemble! • THR’s awards expert breaks down which set of actors might turn the heads of SAG voters this year

A Climactic Tennis Match Seen From King Richard’s Point of View • Editor Pamela Martin served a thriller of a contest between Venus Williams and Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario in the Warner Bros. drama

‘Everything That I Want, as an Actor, to Experience Is the Subconscious at Work’ • Oscar Isaac looks back on his career and a particularly busy year that saw him starring in two features (Focus Features’ The Card Counter and Warner Bros.’ Dune) and a limited series (HBO’s Scenes From a Marriage)

Sights and Sounds From the Distant Past • Edgar Wright shares his reference points for his time-hopping psychological thriller, Last Night in Soho

The ‘Frightening and Daunting Task’ of Playing TV Icons • In Amazon’s backstage drama Being the Ricardos, J.K. Simmons and Nina Arianda play William Frawley and Vivian Vance, respectively — who are better known as their onscreen personas Fred and Ethel Mertz in the beloved sitcom I Love Lucy

‘It’s Cinema, You Don’t Need to Project’ • Cyrano stars Haley Bennett and Kelvin Harrison Jr. talk about bringing a new version of the classic tale — this time a musical, with songs by The National — to the screen

STAGING A TRIAL BY COMBAT • Stunt coordinator Rob Inch choreographed three epic battle sequences as well as the titular fight in the medieval epic The Last Duel, which featured Matt Damon and Adam Driver performing their own stunts

THE BLADE’S THE THING • Weaponry plays a key role in these period pieces, with characters facing off against one another during swordplay

DON’T LOOK UP • The Netflix climate-change satire, from writer-director Adam McKay, sees Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as astronomers struggling to warn the public of an impending disaster

DESTROYING ‘THE MYTH OF THE SILENT MOTHER’ • King Richard star Aunjanue Ellis reveals why the story of Oracene ‘Brandy’ Price — mother of Venus and Serena Williams and wife of the title character — should not be overlooked: ‘Mr. Richard was the architect, but Ms. Oracene was the builder of that dream’

INVOKING THE SPIRIT OF JONATHAN LARSON TO TELL HIS STORY • Robin De Jesús likens filming Netflix’s Tick, Tick … Boom! —which follows the Rent composer (Andrew Garfield) in his early days as an artist — to a seance: “I woke up and said, ‘Hey, Jonathan, I could really use you today’”

HOW REBECCA FERGUSON FOUND ‘THE VOICE’ • As Dune’s Lady Jessica, the Swedish actress says she ‘put as much demand on my director as I know he would put on me for his character’

No Country Nabbed SAG Awards on the Way to Oscars